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@brad Jones, Rog32:
You can do what Rog is asking. I don’t know why the individual thumbnails are not working on his setup.
On my test site, I have a WP 1.2 Mingus installed, with the latest Exhibit 1.1d (not 1.1d2), fresh from the archive, with no modifications other than the table that the data is stored (in my database the table is wp_photos not wp_exhibit, since I started with Alex’s wp-photos plugin before I wrote Exhibit). Be sure that you’re using the latest version, since previous version may not have had some of these features.
You’ll note that the post on the home page looks exactly like the post by itself (this is done with the < !--exhibit:preview_like_single=1--> tag). Thumbnails do not display as the default because I used a< !--nothumbs--> and a < !--exhibit-thumbs:#-#--> for each of the inline thumbnails.
Keep in mind that virtually any option that appears in the config file can be set using the exhibit tags for an individual post!
As I mentioned, Exhibit was a replacement for Alex’s wp-photos hack, and I already had some < !--nothumbs--> in my database, so I kept that feature. I should add an item in the dropdown that turns off thumbnails for posts. I will add it to the config file in the next release so that you can also set it globally.
@noise:
The “Unauthorized” is an Exhibit-generated error that occurs when you try to access the file picker as a 0-level user.
This is the first time I’ve heard of anything like this happening, and I would have expected you to see other PHP errors in addition to this message if you were appropriately logged in.

And at the risk of being suddenly too verbose, here are some plans regarding Exhibit and my WordPress development, which are subject to change.
Also, a link to the alpha-4 fix is there.

My original message only applies to the 1.3 blog I have currently installed.
I don’t want static pages.
I want to display all posts in the main content area except for those in one specific category. On the same page in the sidebar, I want to display only the last 3 posts from that same specific previously-excluded category.
I want a running list of links and I don’t want to use the WordPress link manager. I want to run “asides” actually aside from the main content.
Moreover, I want to know the correct way to implement querying a set of posts for display using the new WP_Query object. The object seems to cause a couple failure issues when you use it more than once on a page, so I thought I would bring these to light, since it’s possible I’m doing it wrong.

The explicit text ‘class="adhesive_post"‘ is never going to appear. It’s done through javascript. Of course, the script that’s supposed to appear isn’t appearing either.
Some guesses as to what might cause this:
The script is inserted via a filter on the_content(). If you’re not using the_content() in your template, this filter won’t be called.
Alternatively, some other means of removing the sticky data from the post was employed. It’s possible that some other plugin or function you’ve got going has removed the “sticky” information from the post after adhesive has added it.
If all else fails, you might be able to add some code to your template to test if a post is sticky:
<?php if(in_array($post->ID, $sticky_posts)){
//Post is sticky
echo ' class="mystickyclass"';
} ?>
You could try something like that, perhaps. This code is untested, though, so I’m not guaranteeing that this will work, but it looks good.
Nice looking site, BTW. 🙂

Ok, so I wrote some code:
<?php
if(!preg_match('|\bcat=|i', $query_string)) {
$query_string .= '&cat=-5';
}
$posts = query_posts($query_string);
?>
<?php if ($posts) : foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp(); ?>
This fixes my problem but brings more questions to mind:
Isn’t it inefficient to do the unused query in wp-blog-header first?
This code seems to cause a problem with the category cache. The update_category_cache() function gets called twice and all of the categories for each post are doubled up. So when they’re displayed, the category should read “General” but instead it reads “General General”. I think this is a problem with update_category_cache() not clearing the cache before it starts storing the values. At least, adding a line to clear the cache fixed the issue.
After I got this to work, I used a second loop (I set $query_string completely myself for this one) to display the latest 3 posts from category 5 in a different location on the page.
Anyone else have thoughts on this? Is there a better way to do it?